This is a public calendar of upcoming Manchester Homebrew Group events, homebrew competitions and beer festivals. Feel free to subscribe to the calendar. If you know of an event that is missing or you have an idea for an event please do drop us an email at mancshomebrew@gmail.com. 2018 Manchester Homebrew Meetups Jan - Bad Beer Amnesty. At Beer Nouveau brewery. Bring your off flavoured beers, beers that just didn't work and crap Christmas beer presents. Feb -...

Last weekend I went to London for the first UK Homebrewing Convention, held over two days in East London. On Saturday evening there was 'Club Night'. This was a chance for homebrewers to serve each other their beers. The evening was very informally organised but worked out well. Each club had a table from which to serve their beers and was responsible for the theme of their area. Some clubs came in fancy dress, like US homebrew convention club nights. I took a beer along as part of Brewcialism, an internet based club which has members from across the country....

Yep. You read that right. In June 2017 Manchester Homebrew held a "Will It Brew?" challange. Everybody wishing to take part was asked to bring along a weird ingredient. It had to be something you wouldn't normally find in beer. It couldn't be poisonous to humans or yeast. And if it was an animal product Steve couldn't brew with it. His brewery, Beer Nouveau, is vegan and he didn't want to contaminate his kit. Though he has since brewed a Cock Ale with chicken and a recreation of Mercer's Meat Stout with beef stock. So I don't think we'll let...

This month saw us sample the 'Will It Brew?' beers, a number of freebies, confirmation of a mid-week meetup and overall a great turnout of people and beers. Will It Brew We can all honestly say that the will it brew challenge was a success which produced some very interesting and unique beers. We enjoyed it so much that this challenge will likely feature again next year. Here's what the group produced: Steve - Porcini Mushrooms - 7.5% Beer brewed with the porcini mushrooms as well as a white wine kit. Subtle and surprisingly good. James & Lucy...

Its been far too long since we last wrote anything about our regular meetups. As August tends to be a quite month due to people's holidays I thought the write up would be short and sweet. Instead we had a reasonable turnout, new faces, lots of beers in attendance and covered a few topics. Welcome New People We had Rob, Matthew and Rolan join us for the first time this month. Thanks for coming it was a pleasure to meet you all. We trust that you got something out of the meetup and enjoyed it. September Meetup - Will It...